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...Aden through the day, adding that the combatants were using tanks, artillery and even jet fighters. Other reports told of the explosion of an ammunition dump and of air-force bombing runs on Aden's airport and harbor, as rebel troops advanced on the presidential palace. On Friday, the royal yacht Britannia interrupted a journey to New Zealand to help evacuate foreigners. Small boats transported about 300 people to the ship before fierce fighting halted the rescue operation...
...palace documented the paranoia and the prodigality of the Marcos regime. Some of the paintings hanging from the walls had been appropriated at will by the Marcoses from the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. Scrapbooks contained photographs of properties in New York City and London, presumably belonging to the royal couple. Bea Zobel, an art collector who led volunteers in sorting through the Marcoses' possessions, noted that Imelda may have spent as much as several million dollars on jewels and antiques in a single day. Given her husband's official salary of $5,700 a year, such a shopping spree amounted...
...second divorce was final, the King informed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of his intention to marry her. Baldwin vowed to resign rather than allow an American divorcée to become Queen; he also argued that tradition did not permit a morganatic marriage, in which she would not assume royal prerogatives...
...Prince was 41 and Wallis was 39, George V died, and David ascended the throne as Edward VIII. Later in the summer, Mrs. Simpson accompanied the King on a Mediterranean cruise. Although the American press was avidly chronicling these goings-on, the English press, in deference to the royal family, printed not a word about the burgeoning romance, even after Mrs. Simpson made a scandalous marriage possible by applying for a divorce...
...that she was having second thoughts about the marriage, but he persuaded her to go through with it and then abdicated, becoming Duke of Windsor. She became Duchess of Windsor on June 3, 1937, in a small wedding in France at a château near Tours. Ostracized by the royal family but reportedly provided with a £2 million settlement and a yearly income of £60,000, she and the new duke began cultivating the fine art of doing nothing during years of elegant exile. They took up residence in a 30-room house in the Bois de Boulogne...